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Local July 27, 2019 | 7:40 am

The people have spoken. Society stopped extended presidential terms and proved that power is not absolute

The main lesson derived from the decline of President Danilo Medina to a second consecutive constitutional reform to stay in power is the falsity of the old axiom that presidential power is absolute and cannot be challenged without risks of being crushed.  The presidential decision announced on Monday 22 was determined by a set of causes, national and exogenous, but the fund... Read more

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